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Roughing It in the Backwoods
Students have the opportunity to practice research and essay-writing skills using primary and secondary source materials. They explore aspects of early settlers' lives in the backwoods of Upper Canada.
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Be It Resolved: A lesson In Debating
Students examine debating procedures. In teams, students research the effects of European-Aboriginal interaction. Students collect, analyze and interpret information to support their side of the debate.
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Report/Presentation Ideas
Learners use the ECO Exploration, the Fur Trade and Hudson's Bay Company, the ECO database, as well as other sources identified to develop a report or presentation on some aspect of Hudson's Bay Company and life in what would one day...
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Behind the Scenes: The Executive Response to 9/11
Students examine the actions of the executive branch following the September 11th terrorist attacks. In this U.S. government lesson, students watch segments of a video titled "Behind the Scenes: The Executive Response to 9/11." Students...
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Value of Money
Second graders examine a collection of coins to discover their value. In this value of money lesson, 2nd graders identify the amount of money represented by each coin. Students use a worksheet to complete story problems involving...
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Understanding Fundamental Trigonometric Identities
Students are introduced to the basic trigonometric identities. Using a diagram, they discover why the parts of the unit circle as named as they are and use equations to finalize the Pythagorean trigonometric identities. They also review...
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Here Kitty, Kitty
Learners recognize the short vowel i in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /i/ from other vowel sounds. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and identify...
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The Indefinite Article "a" or "an"--Cut and Paste
In this language arts worksheet, students learn when to use each article "a" or "an" by first reading the rules, then cutting out small boxes with the articles. Students paste the correct article in front of 12 words, then write 12 of...
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Fiction and Poetry
Young scholars explore fictional text and poetry. They explore the story structures used in the types of texts and examine the language patterns used. Students practice tracking text in the correct manner.
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Riddles with Blending
Students examine how blending sounds together helps them pronounce words. They look a flash cards with letters on them in order to blend the letter sounds together before listening to riddles that encourage them to blend letters into...
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Cell Growth and Division
Students explore the cell cycle. They examine why the cell cycle is necessary. Students discuss the processes of interphase and mitosis. They explore the general phases of mitosis; prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase.
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"Subtraction Bowling"
Students experience the math concept of subtraction without regrouping. They practice subtraction bowling to work on their basic subtraction skills. Each student demonstrates mastery of the addition and subtraction facts, the meaning of...
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Arcs and Chords
In this arcs and chords activity, 10th graders solve 6 different problems related to determining the arcs and chords of various circles. First, they define the 3 theorems that state the relationships between arcs, chords, and diameters....
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Animal Babies on the Farm
Students identify different farm animals and match farm animal babies to their parent(s). They recognize more specific gender terminology for farm animals.
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Sing Your Way Through Phonics Lesson Plan "Alphabet Letters"
Students recognize the capital letters of the alphabet.
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Government Bingo
Students play a Bingo game to review the facts and concepts of the Canadian System of Government.
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Six Trait Writing with Twain and Doyle
Students explore the traits of writing in this six lessons unit. Poems, fiction, and drama are evaluated to identify writing strategies. Utilization of vocabulary and writing rubrics help students judge the effectiveness of their own...
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"I have a Bone to Pick With You"
Second graders explore dinosaur classifications and how animals of long ago became extinct. They conduct research, classify dinosaurs, and in small groups, develop a name of a new dinosaur, create a poster, and present the information to...
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Stepping Stones
Pupils listen to stories read aloud. They examine a work of art by a known artist. Students take a picture using the digital camera. They listen as the teacher reads "Where the Wild Things Are." Pupils compare and contrast the...
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Speedy, Speedy Students Reading Fast
Students review basic reading decoding. Given books at their independent reading level, they read independently and with several different partners to increase reading fluency. They see how many more words per minute they can read after...
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African Animals A-Z
African animals A-Z are on parade in this activity, which provides teachers with a year's worth of coloring and spelling sheets for little writers. Popular animals, such as dolphins and elephants, have their own coloring pages, as well...
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Worksheet 18
For this math worksheet, students graph the function. Then they determine the altitude in relation to the graph of the function using point (2,1).
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Worksheet 8
For this math worksheet, students consider the harmonic series. They assume that the sums move towards infinity and that they are divergent.
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Secret Code Riddles: Addition & Subtraction
In this riddle worksheet, students use mathematics to break a secret code. They solve addition and subtraction problems to discover the answer to given riddles. There are 9 riddles, with an average of seven to nine problems to solve...